When, if ever, will we eat lab-grown meat? …That sure is one rhetorical “we”. For my part, I will pass on that; I’d rather eat raw cabbage for a month.
Ugh. I’d rather go vegan.
Oh veally?
We eat lab-produced GM products with wanton abandon - plants genetically modified to withstand high dosages of pesticides (not necessarily a bad thing, Big Agro-government collusion notwithstanding). I won’t be surprised if meat products produced in laboratory tanks become popular, too. The market will force the change, when an lb of nearly-indistinguishable-from-conventional-meat synthetic meat costs $2, while conventional meat of the same quantity costs $8.
During the meat shortages around the end of the Vietnam war, some supermarkets were trying various mixes of meat and grains to lower the price for ground beef, one that I ran into was very good, most weren’t.
I would like someone to perfect a recipe of beef flavor, grains, and real beef to make a cheap and healthy ground hamburger mix for burgers, chili, spaghetti sauce and such.
Can’t we just make meat with a 3D Printer ?
It can make a Pizza.
I have to give credit where credit is due. Didn't think they would put their money where their mouth is. I think this is a great idea on their part.
soylent green
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“A Future of Lab-Produced Meat?”
What’s the big deal. They already do this in many Asian countries.
“Others are motivated by the high environmental cost of animal agriculture, which produces a staggering amount of pollution and uses land inefficiently.”
The concept of efficiency is an economic one but here it is spoken of in other terms, primarily ideological. This is the same ideology that does not complain when millions of acres are put under the plow to grow corn to burn in motor vehicles.
If we want to talk about inefficient land use, let us talk about the consequences of borrowing money from China so we can pay ethanol distillers a subsidy that allows them to bid up the the price of corn by 50% and in turn allows corn farmers to bid up the price of land by 50%. That has vast economic consequences for the price of other grains and meat as well.
My concern is that the producers of this product will not be able to resist genetic tuning to improve attributes they consider important. In doing so they will introduce genes from dissimilar species that may have later implications for those who consume these products over time. These products must not become an experiment with the public as the test subjects and in the process we contaminate and irreversibly alter our internal biospheres.
Define Lab Meat!